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Was that bit about signing up for reviews written by a passing spamcunt?

I repurposed EA's justification for the online pass.


I should probably learn a thing or two about SEO one of these days. My stuff seems to do alright on Google, but I know basically nothing about SEO.

Do you think a passing spamcunt wrote it for them then? It's the most gibberishy gibberish I've read in ages.

Dear fuck that was annoying. The passcode isn't even text, but an image, so I couldn't copy and paste it. I had to open a second window and then tab back and forth between them (iPhone) trying to enter it. In the end I opened a Notepad window on my work PC, transcribed the passcode into that and then typed it back into the phone. The first time I got it wrong, and had to try again.

The review is very good, once you're finally allowed to read it (DYSWIDT). I like how you've chosen a tone of condescension and repetition with very simple language, as per the sort of halfwits who are impressed by the game and calling it one of the best this year.

Your site is fine SEO-wise Lewie (Wordpress inherently is, unless you really mess around with things), I was just being a silly. But yeah - that review won't get cached by Google properly, but it was worth it for the luls - the rest of your site is fine and dandy.

Yeah, I presume you get it, but that was the intended reaction. That's how I felt when the game told me I had to enter a 25 digit code with an xbox controller just to play online.

Never mind the reduced resale rights/value, it's the inconvenience I hate.

Absolutely. You'll be happy to hear I nearly didn't bother at all, so convincing was the illusion that I thought by clicking (t)here I would be taken off to register with your site in order to view its content.

- your used online code
Agree on your views on the FMV & Menu's just get me to the event already !!

I do like the challenge of replaying an event to beat a friends score but a simple press select to restart like Trials HD would have sufficed instead of replaying the fmv - maybe an option Criterion will fix in an update?

As I said on twitter to lewiep, I'm starting to think the iPad game is the definitive version. Fun single player, controls well, shiny and cost me 59p (on sale).

Not touching xbox version with a barge pole.

I doubt it. The EA forums make for amusing reading, though. 75% of the posts are PC owners either griping about technical faults (perceived or otherwise) or the lack of DLC support (because paying a quarter of the full price of the game for what, four cars, is a great thing they don't want to be left out of). Everything else is people demanding specific cars be added (usually Ferraris, but also odd requests like the Chevy Caprice or Vauxhall VX220) or complaining about the rubberband AI and that final duel race of Veyron vs CCXR.

I think the game is intended to force this heavily produced nonsense down your throat so you won't plow through it quite so quickly. I think I'd have been done in almost half the time had I been able to instantly restart events.

I've said it before and i'll say it again - NFS:Hot Pants is Burnout Paradise with every element of spontaneity surgically removed. It is, for a racing game, utterly on rails.

For those of us that have this game on the 360.
Do we have a particular game night?
If not then I'll be on Friday

http://gospvg.blogspot.com/p/pmgs.html

We don't have a night, no. Most of us got sick of it and traded it in, alas.

I played this last night for the very first time. I was around a friends house and all my other friends were harping on about how good it was.

I played a little bit and thought it looked lovely. Most games do these days.

I'm pretty sure I won't be getting this though*, I trust all you lot more than I trust my "blinded by the graphics" friends.

*Unless it gets really cheap, really quick

I'd say that there's probably a tenner's worth of fun to be had from it. If you make a conscious effort not to peer behind the curtains and don't obsess over the friends leaderboards you'll be quite entertained and not pissed off by it for a couple of days or so.

Doh!! I've not tried the online yet, been doing the events. Will give it a try anyway.

Just for the record, the usual PC vs console rules apply. (I bought this game on PC this evening for £10.20 in a Steam sale.)

It's much better looking, 60FPS, higher res textures, better shadows, 'proper' definition to the limit of the draw distance instead of the 'smear' effect that the consoles use from the mid-distance, sharper controls due to drastically reduced input lag, loading times cut in half etc etc. (Oh yes and you can do without that horrible motion blur effect and just rely on the crispness of the graphics at a far higher resolution and twice the frame rate.)

Some of this does actually lead to a better game experience, the controls are less 'sticky' and it makes it easier to avoid some of the random traffic horrors, plus it's far easier to see in advance where the gaps in the road blocks are.

Unfortunately the same fundamental problems that plagued the 360 game still remain, the random traffic is the main killer of course, plus the cheaty AI, all that shit is still there.

Multiplayer is improved by virtue of quicker loads, better matchmaking, and less lag/warping in the races themselves - but again, random traffic on the road is a right pisser.

It's definitely a better game on the PC, certainly a lot of my 'base' frustrations with the 360 version are eliminated, and for a tenner you'll definitely get your money's worth out of it, but overall still a missed opportunity and a rare mis-kick from Criterion.

Also note the craziness in that it currently costs £10.20 on Steam or £29.99 on Origin, which is EA's new 'competing' online games store

That drum of yours is getting remarkably well worn.

Did you miss the bit where I went out on launch day to buy the 360 version, subsequently played it to destruction, and posted multiple times to this thread about the game with no reference whatsoever to the relative technical merits of the different versions?

Some months later I've snapped up the PC version in a sale (as I said I would earlier in this thread), and thus I've been able to give an objective analysis of how the two versions compare to one another.

You know what's also getting well worn? You and your predictable jumping on my head every time I post in a fashion that you don't like, about video games, on a video games forum.

FIGHT!

Careful, he knows Biochem!

Wait, wait wait...

Your second post in this thread...


Your third post...
Seventh post...
After getting the demo

So yeah, you're not one for banging the platform drum are you?

Nice selective quoting, you know full well what I'm referring to - Page 9 onwards where I did nothing other than talk about the game at length.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Careful, he smells of..... awesome.